Seniors citizens in the United States are finally jumping on the social media bandwagon. This year, 43% of Americans over 65 use at least one social networking site, compared with 26% in 2010 and 1% in 2008. While seniors have adopted social media at...

There are a few words that are rarely uttered in the same breath -- 'grandparents' and 'twerking' are two of them. YouTube duo TheFineBros, best-known for their "Kids React To" series, introduced a few senior citizens to the world of twerking and rec...

For seniors who might balk at the idea of upgrading to a smartphone, a Singapore-based company is developing intuitive apps that they hope will ease the transition. Silverline Mobile, which was developed as a project under sustainable business firm N...

The classic Jitterbug cellphone with big buttons, designed for seniors and users with low vision, now offers a 25-day standby battery life, Facebook photo-sharing capabilities and more connectivity. The Jitterbug Plus is one of the easiest phones to ...

Older Americans love new technology. They just might not be admitting it to you -- or themselves. Though 88.5% of Americans over 45 consider themselves slow to adopt new technologies, 89% will embrace something new when it's better than what they cur...

Each day, Mashable highlights one noteworthy YouTube video. Check out all our viral video picks. This video is quickly going viral, showing an older couple checking out their new computer, not aware that their webcam experimentations are being record...

Twenty-two percent of all grandparents are using a social network, a new study by the website MyVoucherCodes suggests. The study, which collected results from 1,341 grandparents from the UK, showed that 71% of grandparents who use a social network us...

We've known for a while that Facebook users are getting a lot older, but now new data released by Nielsen reveals that the number of seniors (65 and older) using the Web has increased by 6 million in the last five years. Not only that, but nearly hal...

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